Topband: Chesterfield

[Larry Molitor]

Dieter Voss <DVoss at t-online.de> wrote:
 
"Had the feeling that propagation travels with the sunrise from east to west with no really advantage for the more western stations."
 
 
Yes, this is the way it normally works, although you might have a hard time convincing North American stations east of the Rocky Mountains that this is the case.
 
Like Bill, I feel pretty lucky to have worked you when I did. I was sitting around listening to a dead band about an hour before my sunrise on the 16th when I heard you call CQ. You came right back after my first call and was in the log at 1318Z. The pileup was huge before I even got you spotted on the cluster and grew larger fast. It was even worse on the 17th, with the entire band chewed up with callers. I heard callsigns that I never heard on topband before and probably won't hear again!
 
I don't remember hearing you at all after the 17th and there are no topband QSO's at all in my log for a week after that, proving conditions were not very good.
 
Thanks for a great operation on ALL bands!
 
73,
 
Larry - W7IUV

		
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